The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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MEETING WITH ENCOURAGE-
MENT.
The Alfalfa Mill Proposition at Manchester Promises to Grow
Rapidly-Plans Decided Upon Will Give this Town the
Finest Plant of its Kind in tither
Oklahoma or Kansas.
to alfalfa and make every prepara-
Mr. Roberts, inventor of the
Roberts alfalfa mill, together with
Jerry Bodkin, were here Monday
arranging the details for a contract
for putting in one of the most com-
plete alfalfa and feed mills to be
found in either Oklahoma or Kan-
sas, at a cost of $12,000 otuside the
mill cite.
The mill is to bo 32x100 or more
feet in length, constructed of good
material and covered throughout
with corrugated galvanized iron
for fire protection. It will be
supplied with a 100-horse power
Fairbanks-Morse solar oil engine,
with a double cylinder, so that the
question of power will never trouble
the operators. In addition to this
it will contain the Roberts alfalfa
mill, the best on the market, to-
gether with roller burs for grinding
corn or kafir at the rate of 100
bushels per hour. There will be
wagon dump, scales, capacity for
5,000 bushels of grain, bins for feed-
ing the various products of the mill
for mixed foods into a mixer, to-
gether with packers to sack and
care for the mixed product of the
mill.
The powerhouse will be detached
from the mill proper, and will be
built of concrete blocks, with con-
crete floor, and all other necessary
acquisitions to make the mill per-
fect in every detail.
In addition an office will be
erected separate from the other
two buildings, and this will be
equipped all the way down from
fireproff safe to office desk, a full
set of books and office chairs.
It will be a “dandy” when com-
pleted, and it will be completed
within about sixty days from the
day the necessary funds are sub-
scribed with which to build it,
more than half of whicn amount is
already assured.
Ihe Journal would perfer to see
the necessary stock sold to a few
men for the building of the mill
than to see it raised by many, but
we would much prefer to see it
raised by many than not at all.
We think shares should be placed
at $100 each and the minium placed
at five shares for a single man, but
the chances are that a single thare
will be sold to those who would
only want that amount.
I his mill will mean far more to
Manchester, to the farmers and to
the land owners within ten or fif-
teen miles of Manchester than can
possibly be imagined. We have
the facilities, from start to finish,
for msking it a success. True, we
have not sufficient acreage of alfalfa
at this time to keep the mill going,
but when once the mill is assured
the farmers will rush their lands in-
ALFALFA SEED
Many people are making inquir-
ies for alfalfa seed for the coming
fall sowing and are depending
the Journal to grow and harvest it
and have it threshed in due time.
This we are aiming to do. We
have 45 acres on the farm that
now promises a fairly good seed
crop, and we expect to save 35 or
t»n for making it a “"l!" ““''i
thei‘trL ” V Br°W UP°T Wi" T *» k*r3
Mr. Roberts informs us that the‘° S Au*ust ^
moment the money is raised he iJ,,'A k.1 ' OU|!ht to do
rendv to ™tn wort- 1 to thresh> and the 15th we ex-
am! th^Lt n" ,‘g “'!Pect to have it ready for the mar-
aud that so far as possible he will I , , , ,
buy material right here at Munch- <■ , C "V** a J e to beat t^1IS
ester and omnlL h , i 7 a*ew day8< but »t won't be safe to
ester and employ home labor m its count on it —.uu. 1Iie sou must
ZnTto do it aS aS * WU1 be As to the it will he govern- >* * y™ would meet with suc-
• ed by the market price for seed aUcess in so don’t be afraid
vicinity, you should noUook tor m | m'.°' th"fing' whl“h is Bl“- j?°. m“ch harrowing, and
expect but one invitation to sub- ^iTT ^ *'0t°- • * ovcry "'eek
scribe tor stock tor the building of ' When the Lt crop of hay was
this mill, for the simple reason that LIlt wp D,.v_ . . , *
the land owners will be benefited diskine and hart & orouSh
more than any other man or class ^ ov all the "? “ °
_____r. .,.ldestr°y a‘l the grass and weeds
DO IT QUICK,
If you are counting on seeding
some of your wheat land to alfalfa
later on, get the ground plowec
just as soon as possible after the
wheat is off the ground. And i:!
the stubble will burn, apply the
match and get rid of it. If turned
under the stubble will assist in dry-
ing out the ground by preventing
It packing as it otherwise would
Every evening or every morning
after a day’s plowing is done, give
it a good harrowing, and if you wil
harrow up behind the plow both
at noon and night it will be
all the better. In this way the
soil is pulverized and leveled and
will not dry out so readily as when
left laying loose, and it will be in
better shape to pack with the rains
that fall later on. The soil must
of men in its construction. It will , n 7 Sr&fS, Hm weeds
increase the value or your had a in the
don’t fail to hai
thereafter unti
whether you thii
not.
ceding
needs
time,
it or
JOHN G. TUTTLE IS DEAD.
Death claimed all that was mor-
tal of John G. Tuttle at 11:55 a. m.
, , . al . ° ....... u, i uiue at 11:5o
held, and m this way we hope tor„n Wednesday, June 30 1909.
hllVft P VO n DA/trl iLnn I* 1 •
J 1 A«7VF,.J. lie
aid in peace and without a struggle
at the home of N. W. Patton in
^Manchester, where he has received
the^est of care during the trying
ordeal through which he has passed.
He lacked but a day of being 68
years of age, and during his sick
ness he often men tioned that he
loped to live to see his 68th birth-
day. He was born in Maryland—
at Baltimore, we believe—in 1841.
When he grew to manhood he was
V several years a conductor on the
increase the value or your land 25
per cent within a very short time, I have even better seed than w.
and at fast as you get your farm ,hreshed ,Mt a„(| |)aM
to “ “ Wl y0Ur "’- more of it. Some weeds and „a.«
come therefrom, one year with an-Lvc spr in t| *
other, more than 50 per cent. We s F n0W’
base this statement on a knowledgeL, ^ 7^.7 ^7^
and^nowing^hat ite real vXe"d‘7,tyltTo"mve “7
if „„„ , . . pretty apt to have to contend with
If you are a business man m whether you do or do not t the
Manchester, don’t hestitate a min-Lrass and weed ^ ^ “
ute m subscribing for stock to Led alfalfa which b R
secure the mill. It will be the • i * * -
means of increasing your trade in Tfl "T" “f* }’°U wiU get
many ways. First, it will bring 10fteilThe’1 a** h ^ T ,s ^ several ^
new people to Manchester and ^ bUy fr0fa,timore * Ohio railread, after
furnish a vast amount of labor at T , , . which he came to Harper county,
good wages in its construction and for seed 7' j0.0,, 00 f ^ansas’ where he was a pioneer in
maintenance. Second, the cus- Ln i\i middle of July, the latter seventies in the founding
turners you already have will be ! t u J ?nt to book Ud building of the town of Anthony
able to spend more money over Lnnt™!n T ° 7! ta e wbat^ they and at which place he was engaged
your counters and they will have i i- ‘ ° ^ SCed 18 ready for for a number of years in the gener-
four or five crops annually to hJf^T Tu-t0 ^ 10° 1,1 mercantile business,
vest and market instead of one In 1893’ at the ^ng of the
growing wheat, therefore they can L „n .P‘ 4 oubIe selling Cherokee outlet, he came to Okla-
pay up five times as often as they it g ^ m°re lf we hema and staked a claim about
do now. Third, with this mill in- ' __ five miles soutbeast of Manchester,
stalled every farmer within twenty THE END CAME. which he held to the time of his
miles of here will want to see and At 6 o'clock last Saturday morn- dea4b- He had a wide acquaintance
ome *nS de»th relieved the prolonged throughout this part of the countrj-
here for the purpose of wasting
space on narrow contracted speci-
mens of humanity who have no
better judgment than to fall out
with this paper or its editor because
he expresses his thoughts in a
business-like way, simply because
they do not fully coincide with his,
Our purpese is to treat people
right and at all times seek to do
that which is for the best for the
people and the community in
which we live, but when it comes to
doasting for week after week a man
who never misses an opportunity
to “dig” the editor, then and there
we draw the line, and we are not
in the least mealy mouthed in say-
ing so. Of course, if an individual
°f *b:s kind dies or busts up in busi-
ness or gets into trouble and we
eel that the public ought to kno.v
it, then we will mention him, with
a mere statement of facts, but we
are not going to run about seeking an
opportunity to say nice things about
nm— no, not us. We forget and for
get and pile invitation upon invita-
tion to “burry the hatchet” with
those who become disgruntled and
aggrieved at some fancied wrong,
mt when these efforts on our part
are presented time and again, then
the stuff’s off’’ and overtures are
ue to come from the other direc-
tion.
CONTINUES TO CLIMB.
The hog market continues to
climb. A new high point w’as
reached on the Wichita market last
Monday, when top hogs sold at
$7.70 per cwt.
This pricewas not unexpected by
the Journal—in fact wc expect to
see 8 cents or more paid for hogs at
Wichita in a short time. The com-
mission men are expecting a break
in prices, but we don’t look for any-
thing of the kind until the receipts
of hogs are materially increased,
ami that cannot well happen until
the new crop hogs arc ready for
the market, which will not !* for
several months. And even then
the market is pretty apt to lie high,
as there will lie scarcely enough to
go round.
inspect it, and when they come Iin^ dea4b relieved the prolonged I uirougnout th is part of the country
they will all take goods home with sickness of Otis D. Pickens of Man- an<* was be^d in tbe h'gbest esteem
them, and once they buy of you cbester, who was stricken four by ad‘
they will come again. Fourth, the years aS° with abscess in the right He was a member of the I. O. O.
mill wiil inject new life into every Uroin and which later on developed F’lodge at Manchester, and this
business enterprise in town. ft into a specie of cancer. The end Iorder performed the last sad rites
will help to build the church, the came peacefully and with an ex- at his buriab Tbe funeral was
schools, the roads and the bridges, pression of a willingness to go. preached at the Congregationa
and after we get things under good! Deceased was a member in good eburcb Manchester at 1 o’clock
headway you wouldn’t go back to standing of the Woodman lodge at Thursday afternoon, July 1st, by
the old way of doing things for a Goddard, Kansas, in which fratern- Mli90^d acquaintance and companion,
farm in Arkansaw. ity he carried $2,000 insurance for I ^v’d' R- Edwards of Anthony.
Ihe contract for the building of the benefit of his wife, and this will WE DON’T BELIEVE IT
this mill, comprising erery detail of 110 doubt be paid promptly. Occasionally we read in a country
lv?ll fcTiftrU<itl<Ti aml ^mpment, Deceased was 37 years of age exchange that the editor of that
Chariton county I paper “never knowingly suppresses
want to see a very few hours con- * • .t.th.e.agerof 19-'ears he'va;J an ltem oi news,” and we are frank
sumed in getting every cent of the niarned to Mlss Lena Young, in the in saying that we believe the editor
$12,000 stock subscribed. It will state of Nebraska- Ia ^ they that makes that statement lies
be money in your pockets, both as came to Manchester, where they when he does it.
a busmess investment that cannot have since resided. The wife anil To begin with thorp not
vaCof 'y0‘hSa°i!d"u'™“prop' ‘'T '“7 Sti"*”vive.hinl- newspaper man in Oklahoma or
erty. Don’t sav nn’ I Ihe burial was taken in charge Kansas who amounts to anything
by the Masonic fraternity of Man- as an editor who has not more
Chester, of which lodge deceased less enemies in his town or com
was a member. W. T. Tucker of munity, or both. If he is fearless
V\ akita acted as funeral director, in bis expressions of facts eoncern-
and the tuneral sermon was ing matters and things in which the
preached at 11 o’clock Sunday | public is interested, he is bound to
Sometimes these
W e mention these things not in
a fault-finding manner, but merely
to be fully understood by one and
all. Ami if there is a man in the
community whom you may think
the Journal passes up in a manner
that is too silent to look well, just
figure it out that it is his fault and
not ours, and you’ll hit the nail
squarely on the head.
COMING BY MILLIONS.
That capital, and lots of it, is
seeking investment in Oklahoma is
evidenced by the amount of rail-
road building that is going on in
the new state, as well as by the
charters that are being issued bv
t he Secretary of State to the amoun t
of many thousands almost every
day ;n the week.
The whole state, in fact, is on a
boom. There is not a nook
or corner in the entire state where
there may not be seen evidences of
thrift, enterprise and prosperity.
Anri the beauty of it all is, the
foundation on which capital is seek-
ing investment is based on the fer-
tility of our wonderful soils for the
growing of such crops as alfalfa,
corn, wheat, oats, cotton, fruits
and vegetables.
The people throughout the states
of the union have watched Okla-
homa with a critic eye for a few
years back and they see and know
that she makes good. Among the
many, this is one of the principal
reasons that capital is fast pouring
into Oklahoma.
True,the state has been maligned
and misrepresented by the press of
the minority party in the state for
political effect, even going so far as
to state that the party in power
had made laws so stringent that
capital was leaving Oklahoma, but
these statements must be read with
a great amount of allowance, for it
is a fact, patent to all mankind,
that no state in the Union ever has
or is today coming to the front like.
Oklahoma.
—Wm. McGibbon of Gibbon has in
vented a railroad weed cutter which is
reported to be the best yet Invented
and which promises to make him good
money one of these days. We hope the
report is well founded and that Mr.
McGibbon will make a “barl” of mon-
ey out of his invention.
—Mrs.Gnnt Goff phoned to town
Wednesday and had Constable W,
H. Parson go out and arrest her
husband on a charge of cruelty
toward her while he was intoxicated
Tuesday evening. Grant was
brought to town and was given a
hearing before Judge Hawley, who
fined him $10 and costs and told
him to go home and be more care-
ful in his conduct hereafter.—Byron
Republican.
The last time they advertised to
be at Manchester the Bonheur Bros,
failed to make their date on accouot
of bad weather and washouts, but
this time they assure us that they|t’,c“l.“m ai 11 0 CIOCK Sunday I public is interes
ards and ,norrdn8 b>' Rev- <!• A. Shoptaugh make enemies.
I..f /~u.:___ .1____ i ji « . . I
will be here at all hazards and raor“mg b>' Rev- J- A >sfi<>ptaugh make enemies. Sometimes these
the show will take place rainor shine. at the chnst,a» church, of which enemies do not widen the breach to
The Bonheurs are gentlemen and dot'ea8cd was a member. The that extent that they get it “in” for
they alwav have good audiences when . urck was Pached beyond its seat- the editor and withdraw their pat-
they come to Manchester. They ex- ,n® caPac*D' b>" friends and acquai- ronage and seek to say disrespect-
hlbit ali they advertise and tha ntances °4 tbe dead man. and thejful things concerning him behind
people are satisfied every time they marcl‘ to the grave was folIowed b)' I his back and at every opportunity,
come. many people. The remains were and sometimes they do. But when
—A tine rain visited this locality * ,>es‘de tbe motber who they do. here is a case wherein the
Tuesday afternoon. The streets were \ bl‘ned there but a few years «ditor » a fool and a “chump” if
flooded for ashort r ime and thethresh- **^7 , . he wastes space in mentioning the
ermen were run out of the fields. . e Journal extends itssympath-1 comings and goings of that man.
The rain did not extend verv far tnl,<?,.to the bereaved father, wife and and we don't believe he does it.
As for the Journal, we want
D E N TIS
Dr. McGlurg
Will be in Manchester from 8 a.
m. Wednesday July 7, to noon g
Saturday, July 10. I
Dr. McClurg will be in Manches- g
ter the FIRST WEEK OE EACH ®
MONTH.
* ALL WORK GUARANTEED, g
t
CONTEST AT THE
The rain did not extend very far to i
the north and west but was heavier children of the deceased in their
east- ' time of greatest sarrow.
the Journal, we want it
known of all men that we are not
|NA0DEN-NALLY DRUG GO.,:
* CLOSES FRIDAY JULY, 2ND J
at 5 o’clock p. m. |
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1909, newspaper, July 2, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496939/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.